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CVE-2012-4218

N/A
Published: November 21, 2012 at 11:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:44 PM UTC
8 products affected across 4 vendorsUbuntu LinuxFirefoxThunderbird

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 6%

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the BuildTextRunsScanner::BreakSink::SetBreaks function in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Thunderbird before 17.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Ubuntu Linux· Canonicalrubygems
95%
10.0411.1012.0412.10
Firefox· Mozilla
95%
v < 17.0
Affected range stops below 17.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Seamonkey· Mozilla
95%
v < 2.14
Affected range stops below 2.14, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Thunderbird· Mozilla
95%
v < 17.0
Affected range stops below 17.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
openSUSE· openSUSE
95%
11.412.112.2
Linux Enterprise Desktop· SUSE
95%
10 sp411 sp2
Linux Enterprise Server· SUSE
95%
10 sp411 sp2
Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit· SUSE
95%
11 sp211 sp3

References (19)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00090.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00092.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.html
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/51369
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/51370
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/51381

CVSS

10HIGH[email protected]
Confidentiality
COMPLETE
Integrity
COMPLETE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-416

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